Crab cakes with cucumber salad

Crab cakes with cucumber salad

Delicious Asian keto crab cakes with cucumber salad, drizzled with spicy coconut sauce, and topped with chopped salty peanuts. A quick and delicious meal for any given day!

Crab cakes with cucumber salad

Delicious Asian keto crab cakes with cucumber salad, drizzled with spicy coconut sauce, and topped with chopped salty peanuts. A quick and delicious meal for any given day!
USMetric
4 servingservings

Ingredients

Cucumber salad
  • 1 lb 450 g cucumber
  • 3 oz. 85 g baby gem lettuce
  • 2 oz. 55 g fresh green beans
  • 2 oz. (9 tbsp) 55 g (130 ml) scallionscallions
  • 3 tbsp 3 tbsp light olive oil
  • 1 tbsp 1 tbsp lime juice
  • salt and pepper, for seasoning
Crab cakes
  • 1½ lbs 650 g cod, boneless fillet, chopped in bite-sized piecescod, boneless fillets, chopped in bite-sized pieces
  • ½ cup (¼ oz.) 120 ml (8 g) fresh cilantro, finely chopped
  • 1 1 eggeggs
  • 2 2 lime leaf, crumbledlime leaves, crumbled
  • 1 tbsp 1 tbsp red curry paste
  • 1 tsp 1 tsp salt
  • 5 oz. 140 g canned crab meat, well-drained
  • 1 cup (313 oz.) 240 ml (95 g) coconut flour
  • 2 2 eggeggs
  • 1 cup 240 ml coconut oil, for frying
Spicy coconut sauce
  • ½ cup 120 ml coconut cream
  • ½ cup (¼ oz.) 120 ml (8 g) fresh cilantro
  • 2 tbsp 2 tbsp lime juice
  • 1 tbsp 1 tbsp sriracha sauce
  • ½ tsp ½ tsp salt
Serving
  • 1 oz. 28 g salted peanuts, chopped
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Instructions

Instructions are for 4 servings. Please modify as needed.

Cucumber salad

  1. Peel the cucumber into thin ribbons and chop the vegetables. For the dressing, combine the olive oil with the lime juice, and season with salt and pepper.
  2. In a medium-size bowl, gently mix the vegetables with the dressing, and set aside.
  3. Crab cakes

  4. Add the fish, cilantro, egg, lime leaves, curry paste, and salt to a food processor bowl. Pulse until it becomes a smooth mixture.
  5. Place the fish mixture in a bowl, add the crab meat, and stir to combine.
  6. Put the coconut flour in a shallow dish. Whisk the eggs in another dish.
  7. Form four smaller crab cakes per serving with oily or wet hands. Dredge the cakes in coconut flour until thoroughly covered, then dip in beaten egg.
  8. Heat coconut oil over medium heat in a large frying pan, or use a deep fryer.
  9. Fry cakes for 4-5 minutes on each side until they become golden. Lower the heat if necessary, so they don't burn on the outside and have time to get cooked through.
  10. Spicy coconut sauce and serving

  11. Mix the ingredients for the coconut sauce and drizzle over the crab cakes and the cucumber salad.
  12. Top with chopped peanuts.

Tip

Use an ice cream scoop to portion out the crab cakes evenly.

Recommended special equipment

Food processor

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14 comments

  1. Jill
    Is freshly cooked crab permitted?
    Reply: #2
  2. Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor

    Is freshly cooked crab permitted?

    Yes, crab is an excellent protein.

  3. Patricia
    Can these be made with all crab rather than crab + cod?
    Reply: #4
  4. Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor

    Can these be made with all crab rather than crab + cod?

    Yes, that should work well. Cod tends to be less expensive than crab so many prefer it to make these a more budget friendly option.

  5. Susan
    Is the green beans cooked?
    Reply: #9
  6. Susan
    Or should I use sugar snaps instead?
  7. Susan
    Can I use tuna only - instead of cod and crab? I do not fancy crab.
    Reply: #8
  8. Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor

    Can I use tuna only - instead of cod and crab? I do not fancy crab.

    Tuna will definitely change the flavor of these cakes, and may not react the same when formed into a patty and cooked, but we have not tested this recipe with tuna.

  9. Kristin Parker Team Diet Doctor

    Is the green beans cooked?

    The green beans are not cooked. The sugar snap peas would have a higher carb count.

  10. Kate Nordin
    Hello there!
    Thanks so much for your feedback. We've listened, re-tested this recipe, and improved it. We hope once you try it again yourself, you'll notice the difference — and love it as much as we do.
    Happy cooking!

    /The recipe team

    P.S. To keep the comments section up-to-date, we've gone ahead and removed any comments regarding the now-resolved issues. Thanks!

  11. HOLLY BANFF
    Would it be ok if I left out the lime leaves or is there a substitute?. They are quite expensive and I have to have them shipped. Also, I have no idea what gem lettuce is and my store doesn't have it. What should I sub for this?
    Thank you!
    Reply: #12
  12. Kerry Merritt Team Diet Doctor

    Would it be ok if I left out the lime leaves or is there a substitute?. They are quite expensive and I have to have them shipped. Also, I have no idea what gem lettuce is and my store doesn't have it. What should I sub for this?
    Thank you!

    Hi, Holly! You can certainly omit the lime leaves if needed. Gem lettuce is basically a combination of Butter lettuce and Romaine lettuce, so you could use either of those (or both) as a substitute.

  13. mjb3133
    Could this be cooked in an air fryer as opposed to a deep fryer?
    Reply: #14
  14. Kerry Merritt Team Diet Doctor

    Could this be cooked in an air fryer as opposed to a deep fryer?

    We haven't tried these in an air fryer, but I think it could work well. Please let us know if you give it a try!

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